Comments on: Dog attacks cat

By: Cat Lover-- no dog lover

Cat Lover-- no dog lover — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 08:43:09 +0000

I think ALL the people out here– calling themselves “animal-lovers” and “cat-lovers”, while possessing a dog– and speaking here against putting-down a killer dog which has BUTCHERED and cruelly killed a feline cat (and that is the word; BUTCHERED, no other word correctly conveys the cruelty of the killer-dogs’ acts)– are nothing short of HYPOCRITES!!!
These hypocrites, clearly BIASED TOWARDS THEIR OWN KILLER DOGS, are all so merciful and so-very-emotional about euthanasia done to murderous dogs– when it comes to the dogs, their own or others–
and what about addressing the cruelty and outright MURDER done by the killer-dogs???! WHAT ABOUT THE SHEER TERROR AND FEAR (not even talking about the unbearable PHYSICAL pain the cat suffers at the mouth of these murderous and dastard killer dogs!) THE CAT FEELS AND EXPERIENCES BEFORE THE KILLER DOG HAS KILLER HER/HIM?– WHAT ABOUT THAT???!!! Where’s the sensitivity of these hypocrite dog-owners and “so-calling-themselves animal-lovers” when it comes to thinking about WHAT a feline cat has to bear before she/he is killed brutally and so-cruelly by MURDEROUS DOGS and their insensitive and stupid and SELFISH OWNERS???!!!
I don’t care what others here think of me; I think a dog which kills a cat is NEVER-NEVER-NEVER justified. A cat kills a mouse and eats it. Heck, every animal kills another to EAT it. Why the heck do these murderous dogs kill cats anyways since they DON’T EAT THEM???
I think that not only do dogs who have killed should be euthanized, effective immediately after attacking a poor, defenseless cat– in fact these same dogs should be killed in the same cruel and murderous manner in which these dogs killed the cats. Tit for tat. Maybe that will “open up” some sensitivity towards others and others’ pets, in the hypocrite dog-owners and let them RECOGNIZE the EVIL and MURDEROUS tenancies in their own dogs.
A DOG IS MAN’S BEST FRIEND??? Yeah, cause a dog is a murderer and a hypocrite JUST like the man is… Maybe, that’s why they’re man’s “best friend”.
Also, I wish– I really wish this– that a dog-owner who sees their own dog BUTCHERING a cat– and is still against the euthanasia towards their killer dogs as a result of that– should be bitten themselves by their own killer dogs– so that they can ‘get an idea’ of what the poor cat their dog had butchered went through at the hands and jaws of their murderous dogs!!!

By: Lee

Lee — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 04:53:32 +0000

Last Wednesday, my cat of 15 years was attacked and left paralyzed and wounded by my neighbor’s black lab. I had to have her euthanized on Friday. I am heartbroken. The dog busted out of my neighbors yard to get at my cat. This is the second cat the dog has attacked. Last one was a stray who died shortly after the attack. I feel like the dog should be put down. I have a huge vet bill and no cat. I am an animal lover. I have had three black labs in the past 40 years and they NEVER showed any aggression towards another animal. This cat has been around dogs her whole life, they slept together, played together. So when you all blame it on the irresponsible owners, you are wrong. I am responsible. Perhaps my neighbor is the irresponsible one because she is delusional thinking this behavior is okay (an accident she called it) Baloney, I say. If it happens again, I am calling animal control and demanding the dog be put down.

By: Leah M.

Leah M. — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 15:00:50 +0000

We have just experienced a tragedy greater than most written here. We own 2 dogs and 2 cats. One dog husky and the other English lab. We’ve had the husky for 6 yeas and the cats for less than 2 yrs. The Lab is one year old. My cats and dogs have always gotten along. No sign of aggression. In fact my yellow cat and husky even sleep together and seem affectionate. The dogs are known to all to be gentile and sweet. The cats are inside cats. The dogs are either inside, leashed, or walked. For about half an hour a day the get to run around free inside our gated yard. During this time the 2 dogs chase each other and run around with high adrenaline. So as far as the comments made about these things happen to unresponsible owners I would disagree as I consider myself a responsible owner who has not had any problems with the animals before. Two days ago my yellow cat got out accidently (only happened once before in two years). And it happened that we were not aware and my little girl let dogs off their leash for the usual run. After about 20 min I look outside and see our dogs over what seems to be something raggedy/ floppy. Could not make out what it was. I realized after a few seconds and to my dismay that it was my yellow cat. I especially saw the husky biting the cat and flipping limp body in the air. The lab was excitedly baking and right there too but not sure how much involvement in the attack he had except being in the “pack mentality” and contributing to the chase”. My husky had about 10 to 15 scratches all over his face (the lab did not) indicating husky must have done most of the attacking. Anyway we took the cat to the vet. Several puncture wounds. They helped cat out of going into shock (organs shutting down) however went from bad to worse with seizures and fluid coming out of nose…. Stopped breathing … They brought her respiration back. Then Heart rate kept dipping to 5 beats per minute. Finally vet thought best to euthanize because cat wasn’t going to make it. Not only did We lose a sweet loving cat tragectly but my own dogs who knew the cat and get along with the cat did the attacks! The stories above seem to have experiences with cats that are not in the household. This is much worse. I feel that I have lost 3 pets in one. I don’t feel Ike I want my dogs anymore. Before this incident I felt I had the best dogs ever. Loving to family… Wouldn’t hurt a fly…. Etc. I come to this site for help. I don’t know what to do. I am very sad.

By: Kay

Kay — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 22:27:11 +0000

I just recently moved into a house. I started letting my cats outside in our well fenced yard. unforunatley the gate was somehow left open and my 4 year old cat was attacked by 2 dogs. Out of 4 dogs that the neighbors neglectfully let loose out of thier yard. The attack happened on MY PROPERTY! That is down the road. So how should I not blame the dogs & thier owners. Ive seen those dogs countless times running up and down the street nabbing pets like, puppies, kittens & rabbits back to thier property and basically ripping them apart alive. Those are peoples pets!! Who are wondering what happened to them!! My cat got lucky cause we heard the dogs barking in our yard and ran out and saved her from getting hurt worse. She ended up with a fractured leg and a dislocated foot. So she got lucky!! Im also blessed to have my neighbor because im friends with there daughter, paying for all the vet bills. Its a very stressful situation. Im so sad to hear that this cat was not as lucky as mine. It breaks my heart. I dont think the dogs should be put down but I think they really need to get control of them and if they cant… well they will be hearing alot of complaints from me with the police & local humane society after these vet visits are all said n done with. I shouldnt have to live in fear of a pack of 4 crazy dogs runnin a muck killing pets in my own neighborhood.

By: anon

anon — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 00:39:14 +0000

I sadly have a story very similar to this. I have three cats and my neighbours next door have 2 dogs. One of their dogs has been known to be aggressive with other animals and has attacked my cats over 5 times over the past 2 years, chasing one away who never returned (I since got another one) and causing another one to require stitches. It had even run into my home, grabbed one of my cats by the next and shook it violently outside…she luckily escaped and came back a day later. Sadly, just yesterday, the dog got ahold of my black cat when it had gotten outside and killed it by breaking its neck.

I am obviously very upset at the owners since they have been told countless times to keep their dogs, especially the violent one away from my property. It is cases like these where people must ponder “what if this was my pet”.

The truth is that there is really no excuse for a dog to be attacking another animal. Dogs like that should not be owned by anyone and should be put down, no question about it.

In the original story, let us consider the cat to be a small child who was running away from the dog in fear. The dog gave chase to the child and inflicted such severe wounds that his/her parents were forced to make that gut-wrenching decision. What then, do all of you people think should happen to the dog that attacked the child? The answer is obvious…

Pet’s and humans should be treated alike. They live with us, they are our companions and it is our duty to protect them to the best of our ability. If a dog were to kill a human, there is no question that 100% of you would agree that it should be put down.

By: Nanook Burress

Nanook Burress — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 02:51:23 +0000

My dog was brutally attacked by the neighbor’s cat. The cat was in our yard on the back porch and the dog saw it and went to chase it off of our property but the cat just sat there and sliced a foot long laseration on his belly and groin area that required internal stitches and staples. Cat owners just let their cats roam free and I don’t think that is right. If my dog pooped on my neighbors yard then I would have to clean it up or be liable to pay a fine but their cat can come poop on my porch with no concequence. This was a thousand dollar emergency room visit for my dog and the payment was due that day. The sword cuts both ways on this subject and cats are not the only victims of attacks.

By: Tom Hering

Tom Hering — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 21:56:00 +0000

My cats have always been allowed outdoors, but they have always been kept in my own yard on leashes and harnesses, and I have always stayed outside with them. A few days ago, my next-door neighbor was walking her monster-sized dog past my house, when it suddenly broke free from her “control” and went after my two youngest cats. If it wasn’t for my biggest and oldest cat’s lightning-fast run to their rescue, claws whirling, the dog would have killed my youngsters. As it was, my old cat distracted the dog just long enough for its owner to get hold of it again. She of course insisted that her beast was “just playing.” Yeah. Right.

Now I’m afraid to ever let my cats out in their own yard again, knowing there’s a dog with killer instincts next door. The favorite time of day for me and my cats has been permanently ruined. I could fence in an area of the yard to help protect them, but this giant dog can jump the five-foot fence around his own yard. All I can say is if one my cats ever gets out of the house accidentally, and this dog hurts it, this dog WILL be euthanized. One way or another.

By: Harriet

Harriet — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 17:45:09 +0000

Hi i just got a knew dog from the dogs home they didn’t tell me that she didn’t like cats and yesterday she attack my cat she didn’t puncture he’s skin but he’s got a few bruises i don’t know what to do i don’t know whether to get rid of her because i love her to bits shes great with people but not other animals but I’m scared that she’ll attack him again and that next time she’ll kill him please give me some advice.

By: Anne

Anne — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 13:51:39 +0000

I am having anxiety as I am writing this. I have 3 labrador retreivers (2 of them are rescues) 1 I have had since 16 mo and the other I have had for 1 year he is around 2yrs old. It is christmas and I am taking care of my brothers other 2 female labs. One which unfortunatly had her eye removed on Chrtistmas eve and is recovering at my home. All of the dogs get along and I have one cat. He is a good boy and the dogs usually leave him alone. However last night the cat ran through the house and all of the dogs chased and cornered him. I was upstairs when this happened and I ran down stairs to find them packed up around him. I immediatly yelled and removed2 of the dogs and the others backed off. The cat was traumatized I picked him up and gave him a quick check over he ran under the bed and would not come out. My husband pulled him out and checked him again and it looked like he was shaken and there was 1 tooth mark and slobber all over him. He ran under our Jacuzzi and he has not come out. He is limping but using all of his legs. We believe he has bruising on his hind end. I called the vet and she said that cats are resiliant and if he has spinal problems he would have problems with his legs. She stated he most likly has superficial injuries (bruising pulled mussels). I am worried sick and I moved his food and litter into the ensuite with a pillow and closed the door to provide a safe place. I checked in on him this AM and he was in a crouching position looking at me but does not want to come out.

What am I suppose to do? Will he come out? Will he get over this trauma? How do I help him adjust? I never leave the dogs in the house when we are not home. They are also separated at night when we are sleeping. My brothers dogs are going home this weekend. So things will get back to normal. Any ideas? How can I help the cat recover?

By: Michelle

Michelle — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 08:07:36 +0000

I looked up “dog attack house cat” and found this blog. Unfortunately I am going through this personally and was looking for advise, but am appalled at some people’s careless attitudes. It is breaking my heart, but right now MY cat is in surgery because MY dog attacked it. I have the sweetest (usually) cattle dog mix that my husband I adopted 5 years ago. She was abused and has cigarette burns and scars on her. We worked with her for 6 months before she would even get close to my husband. Since then we have added two other rescues to the mix, which she plays with just fine. She has been a great dog for the past 5 years, but over the past year we have had to stop her from hurting our cat 4 times (who we had before she came into our lives). She has gotten more aggressive in the past year, and although I love her dearly, when you witness your own dog tearing apart your own cat, unprovoked, and in your house, there is little to do. She might be doing it because the abuse she had is causing behavioral problems now that she is about 10, or it might be just her wild animal instincts (as a rescue should could have been wild before the last owner abused her, I don’t know). She is 40 lbs and it took my 220 lb husband 5 minutes to get her off the cat as she was baring teeth trying to get it. There is an intense determined look she gets when she is in attack mode (opossums and frogs mostly). I have had dogs my whole life and I feel that this instinctual killing side of her is something that I cannot train out of her… not at the age of 10 with an unknown abusive past. Tomorrow I will be euthanizing her, because my husband and I would like to eventually have a child and we cannot guarantee that she would not hurt a kid nor our little Boston terrier or the cat when she gets home from surgery tomorrow.

Before you hate dogs for attacking and think owners are all careless, please consider that us responsible owners go through this also, even after having animals for years. My Daytona is a member of my family, but I just witnessed her maul my cat because I thought she never would hurt a fellow house pet. I will put her down because she might kill a neighbor’s cat or child. I will cry myself to sleep for nights because I am responsible and am trying to do the right thing for this usually happy, but abused dog.

By: Jane

Jane — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 19:14:45 +0000

Hi, my kitty just died and it was because of my dog. He is really big so she never had a chance, but just thinking about the incident makes me feel guilty because I feel that I could have saved her. I feel horrible right now and that is why I’m trying to find a way to get my dog to like cats. I was looking for a home for the kitty because I knew my dog doesn’t like cats. I put fliers out but no one ever called to adopt the kitty.

By: markfouche

markfouche — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 17:18:35 +0000

Hi,

Ive never been a “softie” towards animals but the loss of my kitten this week has hit me really hard

My girlfriend and I adopted our first ever kitten 3 months ago at 8 weeks. She was our joy and had so much charachter. She was naughty and mishevious.

Anyway, at about 2am sunday morning we woke up as she was standing on my bed(she would normally sleep with us) giving her meow moans. I looked around as I though maybe she saw a rat or something. I turned and went back to sleep. I then woke up as she was carrying on but she was now in the bathroom. I got up and when I called her (Pancakes) another cat came bolting out the bathroom, I reacted by chasing the cat out, in the meantime Pancakes jumped out the bathroom in a fright.

She knows and never goes into the back garden as my dogs are there , 3 of them.My heart sunk when I hear the dogs get into a fight and I heard her bell jingle. I ran outside and threw my dogs off of her. The had cornered her. I grabbed her and ran inside and wrapped her up in a towel. She was very limp but still alive. I looked to see any bite marks or bleeding but couldn’t see anything. Her big eyes looked up at me and she reached out her paw and grabbed me and let out a soft “meow”. When I heard her breath I realised she might have a punctured lung. She tried to stand but would lie down, then switch sides. When she tried to crawl away from me and be by herself I realised she was dying. I didn’t know what to do, I phoned the vet and she told us to meet her.

As I grabbed my keys I held her and realised at that point that I was losing her. She slowly closed her eyes before she passed away. I drove to the vet anyway and she apologetically told me she was gone.

Everyone was heartbroken and in tears.My mother was in tears and my girlfriend. She really touched a lot of peoples lives in the short time she was with us.

The hardest part was having to hold her and have her watch me watch her die. I could feel her reaching for me for help and I couldn’t do anything about it.

My girlfriend feels if only she had listened to her and see what was wrong he wouldn’t have been scared and jumped out the window.

We were very careful with her and the dogs. We tried introducing her to them but she was resiliant to her, hence the reason she would not go near the back.

Only because a neighbors cat had climbed through our window did she jump out and into the back garden where the dogs were waiting.

Anyway, thats my story.

We will miss you Pancakes.

By: Bonnie

Bonnie — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 23:32:05 +0000

Sadly, I’ve been put in a similar situation just recently. My neighbor’s cat (a little “off the charts” in behavior) has been allowed outside. My Husky (whom I recently adopted as the 5th owner) who is barely 11 months old has been taunted by this cat. The neighbor’s employee saw the cat jump up on the fence, “sucker bat” my dog in the face (who would jump up to look for his friend, Kona) and run! Last week, I was outside with my dog and granddaughter to let him potty. I heard comotion behind the shed and immediately ran back. My dog had the neighbor’s cat by the midsection and was shaking her like a ragdoll – on my property. I immediately made him release and crated him. The cat hid and later came home. The wounds are horrific! The vet has warned the neighbors to warn me that I “need to watch the dog around my granddaughter”. Uh, DUH! I’ve only had this pup for 2 months. One of his previous owners garaged him for 5 months and the last “didn’t know he was going to get this big” – yes, he’s a registered Husky. I have now been “encouraged” to put him down.
This boy has responded extremely well to obedience training. He responds to both silent hand signals and voice commands, does not “pull” when walking. He has instincts to jump the fence however, I am outside with him because of his instinct as a Husky.
It would break my heart to give up on this very smart youngster because of abusive “parents” and “aggressive” personality. To me, that’s like giving up on an adopted or foster child because they aren’t angels.
My dog was IN HIS YARD. The cat was IN MY DOG’S YARD. What are we suppose to do beyond that?

By: Bre

Bre — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 02:10:32 +0000

We live on 80 acres but we allow our 7 year old border collies to come inside during the day/evening when we are home. They have always been the most behaved dogs but do intently watch and herd cattle and horses. They do chase outdoor cats, rabbits etc. It is natural for this breed. We have an indoor cat we have had 3 years. Yesterday, the dogs cornered her in our basement bathroom while I was upstairs showering and I found her lying flat, breathing very heavily, wet and very smelly. I found no external wounds. I don’t know if female cats give off a scent or if the smell is from her urinating and having bowel movement but it is very smelly.

She has been walking around very slowly today and stays in dark areas. She has not ate or drank anything since the incident. We did get her to go in the litter box once.

I am hopeful she is just sore, scared and in shock.

The dogs have been punished and are not allowed indoors. I was frustrated as they have been together for 3 years and this is her home and she shouldn’t have to worry about being harmed in her own home.

By: Maryann

Maryann — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 19:22:15 +0000

Sunday, June 13th, my 95 lb., 3 1/2 year old shep mix suddenly attacked one of my cats that she grew up with. She slept with her and the other two. They all ate together. What provoked this attack? The dogs prey instinct. The cat went to pllay with one of it’s own toys, and the cats movements must have mimicked what prey would look like to my dog. All animals were indoors. Cats are indoor only and dog is only out if we’re with her. After two major surgeries in less than a week, my kitty is coming home tomorrow You can’t blame this on the dog or the owner. It’s INSTINCT, which the dog, nor it’s owner, can control. My dog and cats are now permanently separated, because I don’t know if this will happen again, but I’m not willing to take that chance. I think more people need to learn the difference between INSTINCT and BEHAVIOR